Budget Hotels & Hostels
Apartments
Guesthouses and B&Bs
Kruisherenhotel Maastricht
This superb option is housed inside the former Crutched Friar monastery complex, dating from 1483. Where there are modern touches, such as moulded furniture and padded walls, they accent the historical surrounds...
Hotel Piet Hein
Overlooking the Vondelpark's fine old arbour, this immaculate hotel offers a startling variety of contemporary rooms (including snug, single 'business' rooms) in a quiet location, a sublime garden and a relaxing bar. Wi-fi costs €12 per 24 hours.
Nh Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky
Pride of place belongs to this 468-room edifice across from the Royal Palace, one of the city's first grand hotels (1866). It has elegant if compact rooms and spectacular public spaces...
Nh Doelen
Art history buffs will want to stay here, where you'll find a portion of the wall where Rembrandt painted the Nightwatch. The Doelen's location at the confluence of the Kloveniersburgwal canal and the inner Amstel River means grand views...
The College Hotel
A breath of fresh air, this venerable property was originally a 19th-century school...
Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam
Amsterdam's former city hall (1808-1987) was the scene of Queen Beatrix's civil wedding in 1966. You may feel a bit royal yourself as you wander through the cavernous lobby, grandiose public spaces and stained-glassed stairwells...
Apollo Hotel Breda City Centre
Breda's main post office has been reborn as a stylish midrange hotel. The 40 rooms are not huge but are colourful, and the hotel is close to everything, especially the train station.
Oranje Hotel Leeuwarden Hampshire Eden
Directly opposite the train station, this business hotel has grand common spaces and comfy, large rooms with a flash of style (ones in the far rear are leafy and quiet). Frequent discounts are excellent given the quality here.
Amrath Hotel Alkmaar
This modern 84-room hotel has rooms that are spacious and geared to business travellers and are of the typical anonymous three-star standard.
Banks Mansion
You get far more than a fancy bed here: tipples are complimentary at the self-service wet bar in the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed lobby...
Bilderberg Hotel Jan Luyken
This Art Nouveau delight is in top form, with a crisp white and caramel colour scheme and sleek, contemporary designer furniture. Other pleasures include a solarium, steam bath and whirlpool, garden-view bar and attentive staff...
Hampshire City Hotel Groningen
Windows like slits aren’t conducive to light (and some of the 93 rooms are cave-like) but bonuses such as a great location, rooftop deck, free coffee and tea on every floor, and in-house scooter rental compensate.
Hotel Vondel
Named after the famed Dutch poet Joost Van den Vondel, who also lent his namesake to the nearby park, this chic hotel is owned by the same attentive people who run Hotel Roemer...
Hotel Sebel
This 33-room boutique hotel is in a proud art nouveau corner building. Everything has been tastefully updated and the lobby is downright minimalist. The cheapest rooms let you touch the walls – all at once. It's on tram line 17 from CS and HS.
Apollo Hotel Utrecht City Centre
A low-key business hotel, the Apollo has 90 spacious, comfortable rooms. Those in the back are dead quiet, those in the front have views of the town centre reconstruction...
Hotel Pulitzer, A Luxury Collection Hotel
Scoring high on elegance but low on pomposity, the Pulitzer manages to combine big-hotel efficiency with boutique-hotel charm...
Grand Hotel Central
Memories of the kitsch this hotel was once known for have literally been whitewashed. The decor is now a restful combo of white, blue and slate...
Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy
This ultrastylish building used to be a hotel for migrants back in 1921, and many of the original fixtures still exist, combined with triumphs of more contemporary Dutch design...
Hilton Amsterdam
Although it’s an old-school hotel with lots of business guests, the Hilton grabs the spotlight every once in a while. It was ‘flower power’ central in 1969 when John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their ‘bed-in’ for world peace (you can rent the room)...
Amrâth Hotel Du Casque
There's an air of faded art-deco intrigue about this 45-room hotel close to the shopping district and the Vrijthof. An elevator saves you from the stairs; some rooms on the 4th floor have terraces with views over town.
Bastion Hotel Dordrecht
Business hotel near an industrial estate on the ring road.
Bellevue Hotel
Of the small hotels around Centraal Station, this three-star place is the only one we'd stay at. The 77 rooms are small, white and tidy, and feature mod loos and themes of sand, water and grass. If you're sensitive to noise, get a room in the back...